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New Challenge: Bollywood This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
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A Sense of History: Passing Ships As Tolkien's characters in various texts gaze out to the sea, what do they see? What is brought by the ships coming out of the West?
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Nimruzimir, a natural philosopher recently out of his apprenticeship, hardly considers himself very important to anyone, least of all his colleagues. When his strange, prophetic fits bring him to the attention of the High Priest, however, he may find that his existence is less superfluous than…
This is my new poetical attempt to add my own interpretation to Tolkien's Cosmology as to Eru's Creation and the Valar's minds and behind-the-scene providence reasons and mechanisms.. I often review Eä as part of our own world, just in another dimension, this is why I have always seriously…
My newly drawn map of Aman, as complete as I could make it.
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Tolkien Fanfiction Survey data shows that authors view comments as driving their motivation to create fanfiction. However, perception of comments by authors is part of a larger shift in fandom around how and how often fans interact with each other.
The arrival and departure of ships across the Great Sea carries mythic significance for the peoples of Middle-earth. The image of ships crossing out of and back into a mysterious West appears as well in Beowulf and is alluded to in Tolkien's tower analogy in his lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," where the tower allows those who climb it to observe the passage of the ships.
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He and Diamond were visiting, though Pippin had been disappearing every afternoon, and taking Frodo and Elanor and most other lads and lasses in the neighborhood with him—though why they couldn’t use Pippin’s own pony, Sam couldn’t imagine.
So gathered they were to Bree, what lieutenants who could be spared, from their scattered watches west and east, for their chieftain had returned from his long sojourn in lands godless and mountains strange.
Aragorn returns from the South to tells his tales. Halbarad listens.
Elrond Week 2024
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July challenge at tolkienshortfanworks posted
The tolkienshortfanworks challenge for July has been posted to the Dreamwidth community. The thematic challenge is: original character or unnamed canon character; the formal challenge: fixed length of multiple of 50 words. New participants welcome.
Teitho June/July Challenge: Mentor
The June/July prompt for the Teitho challenge is "mentor" and invites fanworks about this relationship in Tolkien's works.
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TT_TT I'm not crying YOU'RE crying! Somehow I had never considered Finduilas might have had a relationship with Beor, but I LOVE what you've created for them here! Her calling him "uncle" and the recollections of her childhood with him--and how she's barely grown up in all that time--is so bittersweet. The care reversal hits hard too and I imagine it must particularly for her, since this isn't something to which Elves are accustomed :( Really sweet, lovely work!
Thank you so much, I love bringing together characters who never meet in text but have absolutely no reason why they could not have met, or indeed that it is very likely they *did* and it simply did not rise to noteworthiness of being recorded for history.
The idea of Finduilas seeing Beor as an uncle or grandfather figure - being that he exists in the sort of social "age" group that her great-uncle does - is something that I hold so so so close! I love the Arafinweans so very much and absolutely everybody connected to them who gets roped in as honorary family members <3
Oh this is beautiful! Really enjoying your recent offerings exploring old age 🥰. Her calling him Uncle is wonderful. This was very touchingly written, all the little details coming together to convey a sense of love but also melancholy.
Thank you so much!! While I'm nowhere near 'elderly' yet I do have a very soft spot for older characters and recognizing just the normal effects of aging. I'm so glad you liked these two, I imagine it is very hard on Finduilas from one angle to see age in someone she loves so dearly, but it is such a comfort to Bëor that they share these little moments.
It makes sense that Finduilas has fewer assumptions that would get in the way of understanding Beor in his old age, although it would still be a grief to her.
Damn, this one was also packed with emotions. What a lovely image to have Finduilas and Bëor together like this. The poetry book she read was so beautifully, vividly described, I could almost see the images myself. Beautiful work as usual!
Thank you, I love the idea of these two so very much, that extended youth of the Eldar paired with the too-soon age of the Edain. They really work well together <3
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